Mecca
Recorded 1952–2025 · United States
Mecca was most popular in 2023, when 164 American babies were given the name — ranking #2,558 that year. In 2025 it ranked #3,686, with 94 births. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 3,118 people named Mecca.
Mecca over time
How old is the name Mecca?
Mecca first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1952, which makes it about 73 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 65 of the 74 years since.
How many people are named Mecca?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 3,118 American births named Mecca between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 3,059 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Mecca in 2025?
94 American babies were named Mecca in 2025, ranking #3,686 that year.
Is Mecca getting more or less popular?
Mecca is rising. Across 2021–2025 it averaged 129 births a year, against 33 a year across 2011–2015 — a change of +291% over the decade.
Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.
Is Mecca a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Mecca is a unisex name — 73.4% of the 3,118 Americans given it were girls and 26.6% were boys. It changed hands: since 2021 it has gone mainly to boys, having gone mainly to girls before that. In births since 2016 it is 40% girls and 60% boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
How old is someone named Mecca?
Roughly 3,059 Americans named Mecca are alive today — 98% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 23 years old, and half are between 7 and 34.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
Where Mecca is most concentrated
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org